HELP ME WITH THIS VIDEO Y’ALL. I seriously cannot decide how I feel about it. Is it straight-up objectification? Or does it subvert objectification by making the women the performers? Does it even, when one includes the lyrics, glorify women? Is it somehow weirdly all of those things? Should I just shut my head up and…

This is so interesting to me, not only as a great pop song, but also because of the video. The overall style is very ‘80s (albeit slicked up considerably from that era), and so is singer Elly Jackson’s punky, defiantly unpretty but very deliberate makeup and hair, yet it’s a 2009 release.

I grew up in a small town that was almost tribal in nature, the social demarcations were so intensely observed. I rebelled against this structure, choosing my friends for who they were, not for our assorted assigned positions, and while my parents were very proud of me for that, it got me a lot of backlash.